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Let’s relearn and reimagine how to care for people living with dementia. Dr. Anna Chodos, Geriatrician and Executive Director of California’s Dementia Care Aware initiative, brings top experts together to discuss clinical dementia care. Dementia Care Aware helps primary care teams to detect and manage dementia earlier so people living with dementia and the people who support them can live their lives with dignity. Check out our training programs and resources at DementiaCareAware.org Dementia Care Aware is co-led by the California Department of Health Care Services and UCSF. 

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Dementia Care Outreach and Education Strategies for Latinos

March 22, 2024 • Dr. Anna Chodos • Season 1 • Episode 10

Join Anna Chodos, MD, MPH and Serggio Lanata MD, MS, as they discuss providing dementia care and brain health education to Latino communities. Using San Francisco’s efforts as examples, they discuss specific considerations and strategies for engaging different Latino populations, such as establishing partnerships with community-based clinics to bring cognitive assessments directly into the community. Learn specific ways to reach and educate older adult Latinos on brain health topics to help build cognitive health literacy and improve dementia care.

Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware

Serggio Lanata, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, and Director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center Community Outreach Program

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